LMS and SCORM - Redefined

What is LMS?

A Learning Management System (LMS) is an application that provides a comprehensive set of tools for educators to manage learning resources, administrative functions, assessments, and grading. Some educators argue that because of evolving Web 2.0 applications, students can be better served by an LMS alternative,
a toolbox of web resources that might include social bookmarking tools, document sharing applications, social networking sites, timeline tools, and media options available in the cloud. Underlying this approach is the belief that students should become more familiar with today’s technology tools because these skills will be
useful in the workplace. As a result, some institutions have begun to offer LMS alternatives, and some instructors are using these options to support their students’ learning. The framework of an LMS alternative may offer the user a coordinating hub with a dashboard or other interface that gives easy access to selected web-based tools. Applications joined in this way provide a “cafeteria” approach that allows students and instructors to select tools according to course and project requirements.

How does LMS work?

LMS alternatives span a wide range of tools and functions. One option might be a complex system built in-house at a college or university, designed to perform many of the functions of a traditional LMS while giving access to outside applications. Another might be a mashup of web applications assembled by an individual instructor and hosted from a blog platform or a social networking site. The tools that faculty members select as LMS alternatives are typically free or low cost, easy to learn and use, and robust enough
to support students and faculty without suffering from service outages or other glitches. Ideally, the LMS alternative might integrate with applications already in use on campus, via APIs or existing standards. In such a design, students could select from among the proffered applications to complete their assignments.

What is SCORM?

In the world of Cloud Computing, the term SCORM stands for "Shareable Content Object Reference Model". SCORM is a set of technical standards for e-learning software products. SCORM tells programmers how to write their code so that it can “play well” with other e-learning software. It is the de facto industry standard for e-learning interoperability. Specifically, SCORM governs how online learning content and Learning Management Systems (LMSs) communicate with each other. SCORM does not speak to instructional design or any other pedagogical concern, it is purely a technical standard.

The SCORM standard makes sure that all e-learning content and LMSs can work with each other, just like the DVD standard makes sure that all DVDs will play in all DVD players. If an LMS is SCORM conformant, it can play any content that is SCORM conformant, and any SCORM conformant content can play in any SCORM conformant LMS.

 Now let us examine SCORM in two parts. SCORM stands for “Sharable Content Object Reference Model”.

“Sharable Content Object” indicates that SCORM is all about creating units of online training material that can be shared across systems. SCORM defines how to create “sharable content objects” or “SCOs” that can be reused in different systems and contexts.

“Reference Model” reflects the fact that SCORM isn’t actually a standard. ADL (Advanced Distributed Learning) didn’t write SCORM from the ground up. Instead, they noticed that the industry already had many standards that solved part of the problem. SCORM simply references these existing standards and tells developers how to properly use them together.

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